Mamele embraces the entire gamut of interwar Jewish life in Lodz--tenements and unemployed Jews, nightclubs and gangsters, religious Jews celebrating sukkot--but the film belongs to Molly Picon who romps undaunted through her dutiful daughter role saving siblings, keeping the family intact, singing and acting her way through the stages of a woman's life from childhood to old age.
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Cast
23 people
Molly Picon
Khavtshi Samet
Known for
Fiddler on the Roof
The Cannonball Run
Joseph Green
Seweryn Steinwurzel
Szmul Goldstein
Edmund Zayenda
Schlesinger
Also in
Ada, Don't Do That!
Max Bozyk
Berl Samet
Also in
The Dybbuk
Yiddle with His Fiddle
Konrad Tom
Also in
Ekscelencja Jurek
ABC of Love
Mojzesz Nudelman
Bernard J Weinberg
Jerzy Sten
Gertrude Bulman
Berta Samet
Also in
Bar-Mitzvah
A Letter to Mama
Meyer Schwartz
Konrad Tom Director · Joseph Green Director Meyer Schwartz Story
United States release December 25, 1938 · Produced in Poland · Original title מאמאלע
Production
Green Films
Production
Poland
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Languages
Original title
מאמאלע
Original language
Yiddish
Spoken on screen
Yiddish
Release dates
Poland · December 24, 1938
Theatrical
United States · December 25, 1938
France
May 26, 1939
Hong Kong SAR China
March 15, 2001 · Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival
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